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The Anthropology of Higher Education TIG is dedicated to exploring the diversity, complexity, and interwoven layers of activity that characterize higher ed. This dauntingly complex system is challenged by amazing volatility that shapes its environment, culture, and structure, and serves as strong driver of change. See More

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The Anthropology of Higher Education TIG is dedicated to exploring the diversity, complexity, and interwoven layers of activity that characterize higher ed. This dauntingly complex system is challenged by amazing volatility that shapes its environment, culture, and structure, and serves as strong driver of change. See More

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Hometown:

Chicago, IL

About Me:

I serve as Provost at a public liberal arts university in Alabama and an applied anthropologist with 30 years of fieldwork experience in rural Mexico and the Maya Western Highlands of Guatemala. Areas: development, inequality, globalization, power, governance dynamics, and the anthropology of higher ed.